NewtekOne, Inc. (NASDAQ:NEWT) ("NewtekOne") and Payroc WorldAccess, LLC ("Payroc") announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance whereby Payroc will incorporate certain of NewtekOne's business and financial solutions into Payroc's menu of embedded business and financial solutions offered to its more than 190,000 active merchants.

After a thorough process of evaluating potential partners, Payroc selected NewtekOne as its strategic banking solutions partner for merchants on the Payroc platform. Payroc's merchants, which, in aggregate, produce more than $125 billion of card and ACH volume, will have access to NewtekOne's financing solutions with loans from $5 thousand to $15 million and NewtekOne's signature 10 to 25-year amortization schedule; those financing solutions include the Newtek Seven Day Business Loan™ and the Newtek Triple Play™. Payroc's merchants will also be offered depository solutions such as the Newtek Zero-Fee Business Banking® account, which includes a business checking account paying 1%, a business savings account with a 3.50% rate, and a Visa-branded Newtek Bank debit card. In addition, Payroc's alliance with NewtekOne will give merchants on the Payroc platform real-time payroll functionality (giving businesses the ability to execute same day payroll) and a complete set of commercial insurance products for those merchants to mitigate risk.